turn point

Go around the turn points. Seriously. No wondering if you are close enough to get in the sector, no penalty putting your distance a fraction of an inch short of 300km. Just go around the turn points. You don't want to end up like Hitler and get your gold badge denied.

On May 24, 6:29*pm, Tony wrote:
Go around the turn points. Seriously. No wondering if you are close enough to get in the sector, no penalty putting your distance a fraction of an inch short of 300km. Just go around the turn points. You don't want to end up like Hitler and get your gold badge denied.

Can I use any airport that's in the faa airport data base for a turn
point?
Thanks
Glen

You can use any lat/long.as a turn point. Since you'll be showing you completed the course by ups data, having the turn point be easily identifiable is not required, although it might help with your navigation, especially if you are using only a GPS logger and not a navigation system.

Subject to confirmation by others more expert than me, be aware
also that GPS loggers record at intervals (usually pilot selectable).
If your logger gets points only at 12 second intervals, you need to
be in the correct zone for more than 12 seconds to ensure a point
in there is recorded.

HTH.

Chris N

On Friday, May 24, 2013 7:33:39 PM UTC-4, glen wrote:
On May 24, 6:29*pm, Tony wrote: Go around the turn points. Seriously. No wondering if you are close enough to get in the sector, no penalty putting your distance a fraction of an inch short of 300km.. Just go around the turn points. You don't want to end up like Hitler and get your gold badge denied. Can I use any airport that's in the faa airport data base for a turn point? Thanks Glen

Be careful of the start if you are doing diamond goal. You must cross a start line at a height that will avoid a distance penalty. You do NOT start from a sector like other flights.
A friend fell into this trap last year. Don't rely on RAS, read the rules or pay the price in lost opportunity.
Good Luck
UH

On Friday, May 24, 2013 7:44:49 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Friday, May 24, 2013 7:33:39 PM UTC-4, glen wrote:

On May 24, 6:29*pm, Tony wrote: Go around the turn points. Seriously. No wondering if you are close enough to get in the sector, no penalty putting your distance a fraction of an inch short of 300km. Just go around the turn points. You don't want to end up like Hitler and get your gold badge denied. Can I use any airport that's in the faa airport data base for a turn point? Thanks Glen



Be careful of the start if you are doing diamond goal. You must cross a start line at a height that will avoid a distance penalty. You do NOT start from a sector like other flights.

A friend fell into this trap last year. Don't rely on RAS, read the rules or pay the price in lost opportunity.

Good Luck

UH

hmm it's been a little over a year since i had a good read through the sporting code, but the last i remember was that as long as you used the same type (sector or line) for both the start and finish then it was fine.

One real gotcha is if you are using SeeYou or some other program like that....the radius on a start/finish sector is 1 km while for a start line the total length of the line is 1km, i.e. the radius is .5km.

start however high you want but make sure you finish within 1000 meters of that. Much less thinking involved if you go through the start line at or below 1000 meters AGL (for a closed course flight).

and yes, read the sporting code, it is available for download on the IGC website, or through links on the SSA website.

On Friday, May 24, 2013 7:33:39 PM UTC-4, glen wrote:
On May 24, 6:29*pm, Tony wrote:

Go around the turn points. Seriously. No wondering if you are close enough to get in the sector, no penalty putting your distance a fraction of an inch short of 300km. Just go around the turn points. You don't want to end up like Hitler and get your gold badge denied.



Can I use any airport that's in the faa airport data base for a turn

point?

Thanks

Glen

Not very long ago photo evidence was accepted as proof of rounding a turn point.
Not much longer ago than that photo evidence was practically the ONLY proof
of rounding a turn point. Airports were readily recognizable to the OO given
airport diagrams, but commonly other landmarks were used too, like bridges,
TV towers, dams, etc. The airports are nice just in the fact that you know
there's a good place to land there (usually!).

Matt